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2016 Skagit County, WA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Skagit County, WA went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 508K customer-hours (Washington average 3.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 21 Washington counties and 431st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with WA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Washington customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Skagit County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 10, 2016 00:45 | March 12, 2016 02:00 | 2d 1h | 9,479 | 144K |
| 2 | October 14, 2016 02:45 | October 17, 2016 11:30 | 3d 8h | 6,265 | 97K |
| 3 | March 13, 2016 07:00 | March 15, 2016 23:45 | 2d 16h | 6,156 | 38K |
| 4 | September 10, 2016 05:45 | September 10, 2016 07:15 | 1h 30m | 5,750 | 2,973 |
| 5 | February 27, 2016 20:15 | February 27, 2016 20:30 | 15m | 4,192 | 1,048 |
| 6 | July 19, 2016 15:30 | July 20, 2016 09:15 | 17h 45m | 3,639 | 11K |
| 7 | October 7, 2016 02:15 | October 8, 2016 08:00 | 1d 5h | 3,429 | 4,136 |
| 8 | July 11, 2016 14:45 | July 11, 2016 22:00 | 7h 15m | 2,993 | 19K |
| 9 | July 18, 2016 15:15 | July 18, 2016 19:00 | 3h 45m | 2,867 | 10K |
| 10 | July 25, 2016 16:00 | July 25, 2016 17:30 | 1h 30m | 2,866 | 4,299 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 84 reached 100+ customers, 26 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Skagit County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puget Sound Energy Inc | 2016 | 6.5 hrs | 1.63 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Bonneville Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puget Sound Energy Inc,pugetsoundenergy | - | - | - | - | - |
| PUD No 1 of Snohomish County | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Washington's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 62,216 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Skagit County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Skagit County, WA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/washington/skagit-county